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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books I LLINOJ S UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PRODUCTION NOTE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Large-scale Digitization Project, 2007. Bulletin of the Centerfor Children's Books THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO * GRADUATE LIBRARY SCHOOL Volume XVIII July-August, 1965 Number 11 New Titles for Children and Young People R Alexander, Lloyd. The Book of Three. Holt, 1964. 217p. Trade ed. $3.75; 6-8 Library ed. $3.45 net. A long, complicated, imaginative, and very funny adventure tale set in an imaginary kingdom; nicely conceived and written in the genre of the folk legend, this is the story of a young Welsh hero. Taran is an Assistant-Keeper of a porcine oracle; he goes forth with Gwydion, a great warrior, to best the evil Horned King. He acquires as companions a beautiful young princess, a boastful minstrel, a toadying Creature, and one of the Little People from the world below ground. The writing is sophisticated and the body of lore and legend is complicated, but the originality of the idea and the humor of the dialogue should more than balance these mild drawbacks in appealing to readers. Ad Allan, Mabel Esther. Mystery on the Fourteenth Floor; illus. by Shirley Hughes. 7-9 Criterion Books, 1965. 186p. $3.50. Fiona, eighteen, sails from England to New York; nervous about living with the father she hasn't seen for some years, she is shattered when he doesn't meet her at the pier. He is not in his apartment, and none of his acquaintances know where he is. Fiona makes a few friends and begins to feel more at ease although she is very wor- ried about her father. She becomes more and more convinced the two men on the floor above are criminals and that they are responsible for her father's absence; she finds that the men are indeed spies and that she is in danger. Father's absence is, however, only a coincidence, since he turns up in a hospital as an accident victim. Although the plot has heavy elements of coincidence and of contrivance, the writing style is good and the reaction of a young English girl to New York is mildly interesting. R Andersen, Hans Christian. The Nightingale; tr. by Eva Le Gallienne; designed 4-6 and illus. by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Harper, 1965. 33p. Trade ed. $3.95; Library ed. $3.99 net. A very attractive edition of an old favorite; oversize pages have large print and are embellished by marginal decorations. The double-page spreads in full color are ex- quisite in themselves and exquisitely suited to the Chinese fairy tale. The translation by Miss Le Gallienne differs little from older versions; some of the words or phrases are varied, but the style and the prose flow are substantially in accord with versions in standard collections. R Belting, Natalia Maree. Calendar Moon; illus. by Bernarda Bryson. Holt, 1964. 5-8 58p. Trade ed. $3.50; Library ed. $3.27 net. A distinctive book, strikingly illustrated, in which the text comprises folk lore and myth from widely varied peoples. The selections move through the calendar year, from the January "moon-when-man-answers-a-summons" of the Baronga of Southeast 157 158 Africa to the December "moon-of-Yul" legend of the Lapps. The lyric style is de- lightful and appropriate; the book is a good choice for reading aloud to younger chil- dren. M Blish, James. Mission to the Heart Stars. Putnam, 1965. 158p. $3.75. 8-12 A sequel to The Star Dwellers, in which Space Cadet Jack Loftus successfully con- tacted other life-forms in the interplanetary future. Now Jack and his friends go on another mission; this time they are attempting to convince the Heart Stars, rulers of a space federation, that the probationary period of Earth be shortened. They find odd cultures at their assorted stops, and are almost captured by the hostile Hegemony of Malis, only to be rescued at the crucial moment by one of their old friends, an Angel-Angels being balls of self-contained electromagnetic fields of great age and infinite intelligence. The scientific aspect of this science fiction novel is interesting, but the plot seems attenuated and the writing style often plods, especially when long, scientific explanations are introduced as conversation. R Bonsall, Crosby Newell. The Case of the Cat's Meow. Harper, 1965. 64p. 2-3 illus. (I Can Read Books). Trade ed. $1.95; Library ed. $2.19 net. An engaging humorous story for the beginning reader, attractively illustrated and suitable for reading aloud to younger children. A very small boy insists to three slightly older boys that his cat Mildred is precious and that somebody will want to steal her. They jeer at Snitch but join in the hunt when Mildred mysteriously disap- pears; they share the wealth (kittens) when Mildred is found. The illustrations show boys of assorted sizes, shapes, and colors; the dialogue is really childlike, and Snitch's devotion to his perfectly ordinary cat is captivating. Ad Brenner, Barbara. Beef Stew; illus. by John E. Johnson. Knopf, 1965. 28p. 2-3 $3.25. Nicky asks his mother if he may bring somebody home for dinner; he knows they'll be having beef stew. His best friend has to go to the dentist; another friend doesn't like beef stew. The school librarian regretfully says she has to make dinner for her husband, etcetera; then the postman gives Nicky a card, Nicky runs to the station to meet the sender, and he has a guest for the beef stew dinner-his grandmother. The illustrations are very attractive indeed, the story is pleasantly realistic if unevent- ful, and the book should be useful as supplementary material for a curricular unit on community life. R Chase, Alice Elizabeth. Famous Artists of the Past; with 177 reproductions, 6-10 including 44 in full color. Platt and Munk, 1964. 120p. $5.95. A very good sampling of the works of some two dozen great artists; of 177 reproduc- tions, 44 are in full color of excellent quality. The page or two of text for each artist discusses a bit about the man himself, something about his distinctive qualities as an artist, and some analysis, for most pictures, of the selections in the book. The ar- rangement.is random, neither alphabetical nor chronological; however, the alphabeti- cal index compensates for this and gives, in listing the works reproduced in the book, starred citations of reproductions in full color. The arbitrariness of inclusion and the random arrangement preclude reference use, but the very casualness has an ap- peal in a volume used as an introduction to art appreciation. Ad Clarke, Joan. The Happy Planet; illus. by Antony Maitland. Lothrop, 1965. 5-7 254p. $3.50. A good science fiction story written with simplicity of style and conception, and with very little in the text that is not fairly realistic. A crew from another, highly regi- mented solar system comes back to the old mother-planet Earth to see if it is again 159 safe to live on. They expect no humans but are convinced that, should there be any surviving after centuries, they will be savages. Only the two children from the spaceship are prepared to make friends with the Earth people, and they do. Although the story-line is concerned with the reactions of the two groups and with the deci- sion of some of the crew members to stay forever on the Happy Planet, the impact of the book is in its message of brotherhood and kindness. The one element of fan- tasy lies in the introduction of a third group of people, the telepathic and cruel Dreadfooters; they serve as a fulcrum for plot development, but they detract from the consistency of concept in an unusually good science fiction story for the upper elementary reader. R Clarke, Tom E. The Big Road. Lothrop, 1965. 252p. $3.50. 7-10 A good junior novel about the depression era, based on the author's experience as an adolescent hobo. Vic Martin, seventeen, steals away from farm life and the step- father with whom he is in conflict; he is turned down by the U. S. Navy and the C.C.C. and takes to the road. Most of Vic's adventures are as a vagrant, although he works for a time as a hired man; he finally tires of hobo life and decides to go home, new- ly aware of his own role in precipitating and perpetuating the hostile relationship for which he had theretofore blamed his stepfather. The book is quite realistic, with no extraneous characters or sub-plots; it has the stark quality of Lynd Ward's illustra- tions of the same era. R Cole, William, ed. Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls; poems collected by William 5-7 Cole; drawings by Tomi Ungerer. World, 1964. 116p. $3.75. A delightful anthology of humorous poetry, with Ungerer illustrations that are abso- lutely right for the varied nonsense poems about the extensive and unmitigated mis- behavior of the young. Exaggerated, gay, and diverse, the poems and limericks should give joy to independent readers and to younger children to whom they are read aloud. Ad Colum, Padraic, ed. Roofs of Gold; Poems to Read Aloud. Macmillan, 1964. 6-10 176p. Trade ed. $3.95; Library ed. $3.94 net. An anthology that contains very few unusual selections; the poems are chiefly such old favorites as "Kubla Khan," "Lochinvar," "The Rainbow," "Rose Aylmer," "Anna- bel Lee" and "The Tiger." A few newer poets are represented-including Mr.
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